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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2010
Sean T. Purdy, Durham, NC (US);
Kenneth Jennings, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ravi Reddy Katpelly, Cary, NC (US);
Steven L. Petersen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sean T. Purdy, Durham, NC (US);
Kenneth Jennings, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ravi Reddy Katpelly, Cary, NC (US);
Steven L. Petersen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Waldeck Technology, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for representing a reference item and a number of items of interest. In one embodiment, each item of interest is assigned to one of a number of concentric regions in a two-dimensional space based on one or more attributes of the item of interest. The concentric regions in the two-dimensional space are centered at a location in the two-dimensional space that corresponds to the reference item. A GUI is then generated such that the GUI includes concentric display regions that correspond to the concentric regions in the two-dimensional space, where a select concentric display region provides an expanded view of the items of interest located within the corresponding region in the two-dimensional space and the remaining concentric display region(s) provide collapsed view(s) of the items of interest in the corresponding region(s) of the two-dimensional space.